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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL.
VOL. X.
Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Rev. Jameson Declines Honor.
The trustees of Mercer university
will have to make a third choice for
the presidency of that college. Rev.
S. Y. Jameson has maileq a letter
to Dr. John G. McCall, president of
the board of trustees, in which he has
declined the offer to head Mercer uni
versity.
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Special Term for the Rawlings.
The assurance that a special term
of the court would be called at Val
dosta for the trial of J. G. Rawlings,
his three sons and the negroes said
to be implicated in the Carter assas
sinations, has done much to still the
tempest which has been rising in the
Hahira district. The court will be
held early in July, if Judge Mitchell
agrees to that time.
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Neither Wet Nor Dry.
Attorney General Harf{ has formed
and expressed an unofficial opinion on
the “wet and dry” question referred
to him by Senator D. A. R. Crum, of
Cordele, Dooly county. He holds that
a new county createdq of a part of
Dooly county, which is “dry,” will be
neither “wet” nor “dry.” The matter
will have to be decided at the polls,
if the people of the new county so
elect.
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Comptroller Kicks on This Law.
In his annual report to the general
assembly Comptroller General William
A. Wright will recommend that the
act of 1904 regulating investment com
panies he repealed. The Jaw does not
give him a right to investigate the
solvency of g company, yet it requires
him to issue a license. He thinks this
defective, and will so state to the
general assembly.
Prison Farm Cotton Solid. :
The state’s cotton, which was
erown on the prison farm at Milledge
ville, and sold a few days ago at auc
tion, brought the highest price that
any large amount of cotton has been
sold for in the south this year. The
350 bales brought 8.81 1-4 cents, the
aggregate being $15,500.
The cotton that is raised on the pris
on farm at Millédgeville is of very
fine quality. It usually brings more
than the market price. .
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Augusta Breaks Cotton Record.
By receiving 823 bales of the fleecy
staple Saturday Augusta’s cotton re
ceipts reached 400,248 mark, which
the largestt number of bales ever re
ceived in the local market in one
year. '
The local cotton men have been
looking for the market to reach this
amount for some time, and have ar
ranged to have a special meeting of
the members of the cotton exchange
and prepare an open celebration.
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Mt. Airy “Baby Farm.”
Mt. - Airy, Georgia’s great ‘“haby
farm,” is rapidly hecoming populated
with its little inhabitants who arrive
for the summer to gather that vigor
and sirength which will enable them
to withstand ghe rigors of any city
winter.
Every day some fifty or sixty little
ones may be seen on the laws anao
in the woods, running about or in
arms or baby carriages, breathing in
the pure mountain air which makes
red bhlood and builds up muscle and
digestive tissue.
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Teacher Must Wait for Cash.
The public school teachers in the
employ of the state will: receive no
more money until December. Thiy
was decided upon a few days ago af
.ter a conference bhetween Governor
Merrell and Assistant Treasurer C. T.
l;*",u‘low.
\’n»:l(;er the act which appropriated
81.0v0/:00 for schoo]l purposes in Geor
zia, §8650,000 was to be paid out in
the @ring and the bhalance during the
'last Ronth of the year.
Theßs6so,ooo has been paid cut and
therefore under the law the treasury
cannot again be entered for the pur
pose of paying teachers until Decem
ber.
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All Counties Did Weil.
There is considerable interest
throughout the state in the work done
by the Georgia division, Southern Cot
ton Association. Every cotton gin
ning county in Georgia was thorough
ly organized and President M. L.
Johnson’s report at New Orleans
showed that the acreage in the state
had been reduced 17 per cent and the
reduction in the use of fertilizer 18 1-2
per cent.
The state division received 2,823 re
ports, the second largest number re
ceived by any state division in the
association.
President Johnson has compiled an
interesting detai] table showing the
percentage of reduction of cotton acre
age and of fertilizer under cotton.
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Requests Farmers to Rejoice.
If the request of President Harvie
Jordan of the Southern Cotton As
sociation is heeded the farmers of
the south who grow cotton will hold
in their respective counties grand cel
ebrations on the 4th of July 25 a sort
of general thanksgiving and rejoicingi
because of the good work done in re
ducing the cotton acreage this year.
In his request President Jordan says
every report shows that the cotton
acreage in the south has been re
| duced, making it certain that there
will not be an abnormally large crop
this year. He says the movement will
prevent low prices and has saved the
south $50,000,000. He predicts 10 cent
cotton next fall.
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Charges Against Colored Collector.
According to a Washington dispatch,
charges have been filed with the pres
ident against Collector of Internal
Revenue Rucker of Georgia. These
are set forth in a rather lengthy let
ter of protest against Rucker’s re
appointment forwarded by two citi
zens of Americus. |
In effect these are that the collec
tor nas at different times approved
salary and expense vouchers for some
of his deputies wianen they were go
ing about the state on political rather
than official business. Names and
dates are given. The work these dep- ‘
uties were engaged upon was, accord-‘
ing to the showing made, the seeking
to influence delegaies to the siate re
publican convention and members of
the local committees in favor of Col
lector Rucker in his contests with an
opposing faction of his party. |
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Headright Grants Issued. |
Headright grants for some valuable
timber lands in Camden county were
issued a few days ago to Sam
uel Manor and Luther Buie, well
known citizens of St. Mary’s, county
site of Camden. Thus for practically
nothing these gentlemen have obtain
ed titles to property that in time
may be worth considerable money,
and in the meantime will doubtless
net them tidy incomes in the event
they cut the timber.
Mr. Manor, as a result of his in
‘vestigations, has been deeded by the
state 620 acres of timber land, on
which pine and cypress grow in
abundance.
The land deeded to Mr. Buie is not
S 0 extensive, there being only 169|
acres in the plot. It is, however, quite
valuable, as it, too, contains nuch
pine and cypress.
There is considerable unclaimed
land in southeast Georgia, and ccca
sionally the secretary of state issues
a headright grant to citizens who
have taken the trouble to investigate
the question and establish a claim.
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Governor’s Inauguration,
The new legislature will soon begin
business in Atlanta. On Saturday,
July 1, at noon, the inauguration of
the new governor will take place,
when Governor Joseph M. Terrell will
he sworn in for his second term. It
is probable the oath will be admin
istered as usual, by Chief Justice T.
J. Simmons of the supreme court,
Then Governor Terrell will deliver his
inaugural address before the joint
session of the house and senate, and
this will practically conclude the busi
ness of the day.
LEESBURG, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1905.
Owing to the change in the time o 1
holding the sessions of the general as
sembly from October to June, Gover
nor Terrell’s first term has extended
eight months beyond the two-year pe
riod. His second term, however, will
be just two years from the date ot
his inauguration. The increased sal
ary of $5,000 a year will be paid to
Governor Terrell with the commence-‘
ment of his new term.
The gowernor's message is another
feature of the opening of the session.
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For Compulsory Education.
At the meeting of the coming gen
eral assembly, a bill, having for its
primary object compulsory education,
will be introduced in the house, and
its enactment into law will be urged.
The measure will have the endorse
ment of, School Commissioner W. S.
Merritt, and will be championed by
geveral of the strongest members of
the legislature.
The bill, in the event of its pass—‘
age, will not compe] school attendance |
and will in this respect differ from |
compulsory education laws in effect
in other states. It will be an educa
tional measure in the strictest sense
of the word, not an attendance act.
In a word, the proposed measure
will provide that all children in Geor-!
gia hetween the ages of 8 and 14|
years shall stand yearly examinations, I
showing that they have a certain
amount of ®ducational knowledge in
| reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar,
| history and geography. These exam
inations will be conducted each yea:
by the schoool commissioners of the
respective counties .of Georgia.
fOUND FATHER IN POTTER’S FIELD,
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Two Years’ Search by Sons of Missing
Man is at Last Rewarded.
A two yezrs’ search for D. N. Ross,
a prominent contractor of San Fran
eisco, who disappeared in iAugust,
1903, has ended at the coroner’s of
fice. George P. Harris identified the
description of an unidentified man
killed by @ street car in September,
1903, as that of the father of Dr.
Frank Ross, assistant director at the
Carnegie institute at Washington, D.
C., and Walter Ross, in the govern
ment service. The body, which has
lain all the time in the potter’s fieli,
will be exhumed and given fitting
burial.
# GREAT SWARM OF BABIES |
Block Traffic Temporarily in Union Railway
Station at St. Louis.
Sixty-one imfants, former inmates of
the New York foundling asylum,
thronged the union station in St.
Louis Thursday, and congested traffic
for a time, keeping a corps of nurses
busy. One baby fell from a car win
dow just before reaching St. Louis and
was instantly killed. At the station
five babies succeeded in crawling un
der waiting trains, but were rescued
from their perilous positiong. "~ The
infants are being taken to Texas,
where they will be distributed into
homes for adoption.
LITTLE “FONSY" ENJOYS HIMSELF.
' Spanish King Visits London Town and the |
Britishers Slebber Over Him. |
! King Alfonso visited the city otl
London Wednesday and emjoyed the }
hospltality of the lord mayor and cor- |
poration at the Guild hall. For the |
first time since his arrival in Eng-!
land the weather was sufficlently fine
to enable him to appear in an open
carriage ard for the first time any
thing in the nature of really large |
ocrowds gathered to weleome him,
DEPUTIES SEARCHED EVERYBODY.
Army Officers, Soldiers and Civiians In
spected for Stolen Money, |
The postoffice at Fort Dade, United
States artillery post, on Egmont Key,
Fla., was robbed of $285 Thursday
night, while the postmistress, Mrs. T.
H. Morton, was in Tampa. i
When the steamer from Egmont
Key arrived in Tampa Friday, depu
ties from the sherift’s office searcheau
every person on board, including army
officers, soldiers, civilians and women,
but no trace of tae meney was found
GAME. |
“Shall we have game for dinner?”
*“Yes—some of that chicken cror ‘
quet!”—Cleveland Leader. :
AN AWFUL SKIN HUMOR
Covered Head, Neck and Shoulders-—Suf
fered Agony For Twenty-Five Years
Until Cured by Cuticura.
“For twenty-five years I suffered agony
from a terrible humor, completely covering
my head, neck and shoulders, discharging
matter of such offensiveness to sight and
smell that I became an object of dread. I
consulted the most able doctors far and
near, to no avail. Then I got Cuticura,
and in a surpisingiv short time [ was com
pletely cured. 1 advise all those suffering l
from skin humors to get Cuticura and énd
their misery at once. 8. P. Keyes, 149
Congress Street, Boston, Mass.” & ‘
Fiench as She Speaks It. |
She had asked permission to use
the telephone while her mother tran- |
sacted her business with the head of |
the office. A caller was an interested
listener (to the one-sided conversa
‘tion until, just as the talk grew in
teresting, she began to speak in
French. T
“What was that girl saying?” de
manded the caller of the bookkeeper,
after the two women had left the
office. “You speak French.”
“That is just the trouble,” was the
laughing answer. “I speak French;
that girl merely thinks she does. I
could not understand one word in
ten.”
“Then how do you suppose the
other girl understood?”
“She understood it Dbecause they
both studied under the same teacher.
There is more bad French taught in
l the fashionable finishing schools in
‘ this city than any one save a French
i man can realize. She used words I
| never heard before, and yet I could
have told what she was trying to
] say.”—New York Press.
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| NERVY.
. “Myrtilla,” said the old gentle
. man, sharply, “that young man you
} had in the parlor last night is dull
‘of comprehension. All I had to do
| was cough when the other chaps re
-1 mained too late and they would take
| the hint and depart. Did this one
lsay .anything - when I coughed last
| night?” :
i “Yes,” replied the beautiful daugh
ter; “he said the next time he called
* he was going to bring you a bottle
‘of cough syrup.”’—Detroit Tribune.
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FOOD IN SERMONS.
feed the Dominie Right and the Sermons
Are Brilliant.
A conscientious, hard-working and -
eminently successful clergyman writes:
“] am glad to bear testimony to the
pleasure and increased measure of
efficiency and health that have come to
me from adopting Grape-Nuts food as
one of my articles of diet.
~ “Tor several years I was much dis
tressed during the early part of each
%duy by indigestion. My breakfast,
- usually consisting of oatmeal, milk and
eggs, seemed to turn sour and failed
' to digest. After dinner the headache
and other symptoms foilowing the
breakfast would wear away, only to re
turn, however, next morning.
“Having heard of Grape-Nuts food, I
finally concluded to give it a fair trial
I quit the use of oatmeal and eggs, and
made my breakfasts of Grape-Nuts,
cream, toast and Postum. The result }
wag surprising in improved health and |
total absence of the distress that had,
for so long a time, followed the morn
ing meal. My digestion became
once more satisfactory, the headaches
ceased, and the old feeling of energy
returned. Since that time, four years
ago, I bave always had Grape-Nuts
food on my breakfast table.
“I was delighted to find also, that
whereas before I began to use Grape-
Nuts food I was quite nervous and be
came easily wearied in the work of
preparing sermons and in study, a
marked improvement in this respect re
sulted from the change in my diet. I
am convinced that Grape-Nuts food
produced this result and heiped me to a
sturdy conditlon of mental and physical
| strength.
~ “] have known several persons who
were formerly troubled as I was, and
" who have been helped as I have been,
by the use of Grape-Nuts food, on my
‘ recommendation, among whom may be
mentioned the Rev. —, NOW a mis
gionary to China.” Name given by
Postum Company, Battle Creek, Mich.
“There’s a reason.”
Read the little book, “The Road to
' Wellville,” in each pkg.
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The Longest Lawsuit. .
Spain boasts probably the longest
lawsuit in the world’s history. It be
gan in 1517 and s still sub judice.
The case, which concerns a pension,
{g between the Marquis de Viana and
the Count Torres de Cabrera, and the
accumulated sum in dispute would
have reached fabulous milllons had
not four centuries of attorneys, bar
risters and court officials taken con
siderate measures of appropriation to
prevent the sum becoming unwieldly,
CANDID FRIEND.
He—Yes, whenever I see myself in
the mirror I feel that I am much bet
ter looking than the average man.
Do you call this conceit?
His Friend—No; T call it distorted
vision.—Chicago Journal.
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